Harper: A Collection of Horrors

Harper: A Collection of Horrors is a deeply disturbing novel containing a collection of fictional accounts of current and former residents of the town of Harper in southern California. It is the second novel authored by Gunnar K. A. Njalsson and the first by this author in English. The narrator is a 53-year-old former Harperite named Gordon Groff and who wants to 'come clean' about the city's horrendous past which has scarred the narrator, his family and many of the people who lived in the town between 1950 and 1980. Nobody else wants to talk about Harper's past, so Groff breaks the silence and recounts the history of the area where the city is located and proceeds to tell the supernatural and gruesome tales which his family and neighbors have recounted to him. He also puts into words for the first time the horrific incidents which he witnessed as a child.Harper is not about ghost stories or second-hand reports of supernatural events. While offering a quaint and refreshing insight into southern California life in the 1950's, 1960's and 1970's, the stories vividly move the reader into the life of a community plagued by bizarre and terrifying forces and events which may be related to the geology beneath the feet of its residents. Harper is an account unlike anything readers have recently been exposed to and certainly a uniquely scary experience for those whose most sinister reading about southern California has been limited to crime novels. As the accounts grow more unsettling and grotesque, the reader is tempted to think "you can't make this stuff up" only to add a few seconds later "let's hope to God this is fiction!"

About the Author

Gunnar K. A. Njalsson was born in 1968 and lived his younger years in Orange County, Iceland, Norway and Finland. As both an author of fiction and academic non-fiction, he has published numerous articles, guides and books in five languages. Njalsson left high school directly from the 11th grade to immediately commence university studies at the age of 17 in 1985 receiving highest grades. In Finland, he completed his university education in Swedish and Finnish in record time with highest grades and graduated with a master's degree in Public Administration and Economics from the University of Helsinki. He is also a composer of film, classical, jazz and electronic music with over seven albums and singles released since 2016.

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